“This ban is a massive win for Texas ranchers, producers, and consumers,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement following the bill’s passage. “Texans have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. It’s plain cowboy logic that we must safeguard our real, authentic meat industry from synthetic alternatives.”

Texas joins Indiana, Mississippi, Montana and Nebraska in enacting new laws this year; Alabama and Florida did so last year. In March, the Oklahoma House approved a similar bill that did not advance out of the Senate this session.

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    6 days ago

    The fact that you think it’ll be cheaper shows you havent been paying very much attention to capitalism.

    Everytime a thing like this comes along, that promises a cheaper, better solution… It ends up being neither .

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        5 days ago

        Oh well, if you say it, it must be true… even if it flies in the face of established capitalist behavior and precedent.

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          5 days ago

          Yes capitalists are profit maximisers.

          However, many competing producers will minimise the cost to consumers.

          This is true of any technology ever developed.